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Say Hello to Steve
2008-05-05 06:35:00 This is our new rooster, Steve . I picked him up from my friend Denise when I was at the Edible Plant Sale yesterday. She’s long on roosters, and I decided that you can’t have a farm without a big pretty rooster. He crowed all the way home in the car yesterday, and serenaded us ...
Say Hello to Steve
2008-05-05 06:35:00 This is our new rooster, Steve . I picked him up from my friend Denise when I was at the Edible Plant Sale yesterday. She’s long on roosters, and I decided that you can’t have a farm without a big pretty rooster. He crowed all the way home in the car yesterday, and serenaded us ...
Spring finally arrives?
2008-05-04 08:28:00 While the weather makes me think otherwise, it seems that spring has finally arrived. At the U District farmers market this morning there were signs of it everywhere. From the bigger crowds bearing canvas bags, to the flower vendors flush with tulips, to the raabs and arugula, to the very first spears of asparagus. Even though ... More About: Spring , Finally
Spring finally arrives?
2008-05-04 08:28:00 While the weather makes me think otherwise, it seems that spring has finally arrived. At the U District farmers market this morning there were signs of it everywhere. From the bigger crowds bearing canvas bags, to the flower vendors flush with tulips, to the raabs and arugula, to the very first spears of asparagus. Even though ... More About: Spring , Finally
2008 One Local Summer
2008-05-03 17:43:00 Nicole is hosting the 2008 One Local Summer challenge over at Farm to Philly. The challenge will run from June 1 to August 31 this year. Essentially you prepare one meal a week using all local ingredients (100 mile radius or your definition) and write about it on your blog. Weekly recaps for each region (West, ...
2008 One Local Summer
2008-05-03 17:43:00 Nicole is hosting the 2008 One Local Summer challenge over at Farm to Philly. The challenge will run from June 1 to August 31 this year. Essentially you prepare one meal a week using all local ingredients (100 mile radius or your definition) and write about it on your blog. Weekly recaps for each region (West, ...
Conquering Aliens
2008-05-02 06:10:00 Blackberries are rampant in Washington state and we pretty much consider them an invasive weed. There is one native variety, the trailing blackberry, but all of the evergreen versions are invasive from either Europe or Asia. We’ve got some trailing out of the woods on our back property line that I think are native and ... More About: Aliens
Conquering Aliens
2008-05-02 06:10:00 Blackberries are rampant in Washington state and we pretty much consider them an invasive weed. There is one native variety, the trailing blackberry, but all of the evergreen versions are invasive from either Europe or Asia. We’ve got some trailing out of the woods on our back property line that I think are native and ... More About: Aliens
Want Beef?
2008-05-01 07:26:00 This is for my Washington readers only - sorry to everyone else. Our freezer is almost tragically empty as we roll up to spring. The quarter cow that we took delivery of last June is down to the last few roasts and packages of ground beef. To bring a smile back to my face (and ... More About: Beef
World Class Dining in Arlington?
2008-05-01 06:20:00 Who’d a thunk that you could have a world class dining experience in Arlington , Washington? Most of the restaurants around here run to the diner, bar or chain variety. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, there are some really good places around here. But there are very few that compare to the dining to ... More About: World , Class , Dining
Hens in the yard
2008-04-30 05:57:00 Is that kind of like fish in a barrel? I guess it might be if a coyote figured out how to get in or the eagle decided to visit. But anyway, I think they’re safer now than they were before. And the neighbor’s veggie garden definitely is. With the help of my parents, Mike and ... More About: Yard
Dead Cow Grazing
2008-04-28 04:49:00 For more than a month, every time I’ve driven down the road between here and the town to the north I’ve seen a dead cow in the same pasture in the same place. It was a black and white dairy cow. I saw her standing once when we first moved in, then the next time ... More About: Dead
Where I?ve been
2008-04-27 18:43:00 Sorry about the silence, I was in Cedar Rapids through Thursday morning. Then on my way home I “picked up” my parents in Minneapolis to come back here for a 4 day weekend. They offered to help with projects while they were here, so we’ve been hard at work ever since. Friday we picked up supplies ...
Paint without the smell
2008-04-24 05:03:00 On the theme of doing my part and making smarter choices, I want to tell you about my new favorite paint. No, I’m not being paid to do it (but they should since I’m telling everyone I know!) and no I didn’t get a free sample. I paid $50+ per gallon just like everyone ... More About: Smell , Paint
Earth Day 2008
2008-04-23 05:07:00 Today is Earth Day, but somehow I feel like all the hoopla, all the commercials, all the “things you can do” being bandied about somehow misses the point. Changing the way we interact with our planet isn’t just about thinking about the environment for one day. It isn’t just about buying the “green” version of ... More About: Earth Day , 2008
Garden Update: Hail, Snow and Frost
2008-04-22 07:13:00 In late April! So not normal for around here. Between the weather and traveling for work I’m starting to think we’ll never get the garden in. If my travel schedule weren’t conspiring against me, I likely would have put up a cloche last weekend so that I could get some things seeded in the garden. But ... More About: Garden , Update , Snow , Frost
Stealing a moment
2008-04-19 03:18:00 I’m here on the show floor having a cup of coffee and a muffin, stealing a little mental break before the day starts (it’s 7:45 am as I’m writing). It’s been a jam packed couple of days - these shows always are - and my whole body is tired. Last night we walked from one end ... More About: Moment , Stealing
The city that never sleeps
2008-04-16 06:16:00 I’m in Vegas this week for work. I got in this afternoon and I’m here until Saturday morning. It’s been almost a decade since the last time I was here. And yeah, it’s pretty much just like I remember. I flew through LAX and so came in on a prop plane and got a nice long, ... More About: City
Dead Tired
2008-04-14 07:09:00 There are weekends that make you long to go back to work on Monday. This was almost one of them. Saturday was one of those gorgeous days that Seattleites don’t tell outsiders about. People that don’t live here don’t know that we sometimes get 80 degree days in April. For those of us that do live ... More About: Dead , Tired
New Feature
2008-04-12 16:17:00 I realized the other day that I like it when blogs let me either subscribe via email, or easily let me add them to my feed aggregator. Don’t you? So I did a little monkeying around on the backend here and finally figured out how to make it work on my blog. So now you can subscribe ... More About: Feature
Snuggled Up
2008-04-12 07:04:00 No matter what size or age they are, my chickens like to snuggle up to sleep. It’s something that always surprises me - this need they have to be close together, and how they each make sure their needs are met. Take the big girls. Agnes is the smallest and get cold the easiest. She likes ...
See my mom on TV
2008-04-11 07:13:00 My mother, Linda Lemke, the nordic walking queen, will be on CBS’s The Early Show Saturday morning. She’s representing Leki and talking about the benefits of Nordic Walking. She’ll be on sometime between 8:00 and 8:30 am Eastern. So get up early, make some coffee and cheer her on. She’s super excited and so are ...
Garden Update: Sproutlings
2008-04-10 06:10:00 I didn’t get any planting or amending done over the weekend. It turned out that a fairly significant amount of the grass was just a bit deeper than the rototiller could reach. So I decided not to fight it and will try again this weekend. Oh well - we’re still ahead of my revised ... More About: Garden , Update
Dark Days 2008: Finale
2008-04-09 08:25:00 First I want to thank everyone that participated in both the first half of the challenge and those that saw it all the way through. You made it possible, you made it happen. You collectively have made a difference. Not just for your own families, but for all the readers that have been checking in ... More About: Dark , Finale , Days , Dark Days , 2008
I have a lot to say
2008-04-08 06:32:00 about the end of the Dark Days Challenge. Last night we had friends for dinner. Tonight I’m about half way done, but I’m not going to finish before I need to go to bed. Check back tomorrow night for the complete wrap-up to end the challenge. Thanks for your patience. Laura
Amending
2008-04-05 05:55:00 Mike continues to be the man when it comes to get the veggie garden up. He’s done waaaaay more work than I have so far and it’s supposed to be my project. But then again, I did say all I wanted for my birthday was a veggie garden… Today he wrangled a favor from a trucking ...
Daily Photo: Mini Rooster?
2008-04-04 03:15:00 I still haven’t named any of the chicks - not sure why, maybe because I’m waiting for them to finish feathering out, or maybe just because it’s been so busy around here. It might turn out to be a good thing, because I think that this little one is a rooster. I know I know, it’s ... More About: Photo , Daily , Mini , Rooster
My mom?s gonna be famous
2008-04-03 17:49:00 My mom, who’s affectionately known as the Nordic Walking Queen around Minneapolis, is going to be on the CBS Saturday Morning Show next weekend talking about nordic walking. In New York. On national TV. Live. How cool is that?!?! Details to come once she knows exactly what she’s doing and what time she’ll be on. More About: Famous , Gonna
Daily Photo: Isn?t it Pretty?
2008-04-03 06:11:00 My extremely fantastic husband spent most of today roto-tilling the turf into the new veggie garden. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s still pretty clayey - but better than it was before. We’re still trying to find a cheap source for a pretty huge amount of compost to till into this weekend. But at least I can ... More About: Photo , Daily , Pretty
Growing Challenge: No Turning Back
More articles from this author:2008-04-02 06:18:00 Well, there’s no turning back now. Mike’s had the last two days off of work (slow season for excavation) and so has been busy here at the house. Yesterday he cut down a row of overgrown junipers along the driveway. They were about 30 feet tall and were going to be blocking the afternoon sun ... More About: Back , Challenge , Growing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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